Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Christmases past
As you reflect upon the Christmas just past, were you disappointed? Maybe it didn't have the magic you remember as a child -- a young person -- or even more recently. Perhaps this statement by Richard John Neuhaus may help:
There is no point in trying to recapitulate Christmas as you knew it when you were, say, seven years old. That way lies sentimentalities unbounded. The alternative, is the way of contemplation, of demanding of oneself the disciplined quiet to explore, and be explored by, the astonishment of God become one of us that we may become one with God.
There is no point in trying to recapitulate Christmas as you knew it when you were, say, seven years old. That way lies sentimentalities unbounded. The alternative, is the way of contemplation, of demanding of oneself the disciplined quiet to explore, and be explored by, the astonishment of God become one of us that we may become one with God.
